Iron County register., 1887-06-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


vate secretary, has gone to New York
and is not expected to return for several
days. He will probably accompany Mrs.
Cleveland when she returns to Washing
| ton
VIM A ROBERTS, local agent for the
American Express Company at Lincoln,
| ILL.,, attempted to commit suicide on the
| 21st by taking dose Of morphine. A
physician was summoned and saved his
life by energetic work. Roberts is mar
ried man about twenty-six years of age,
and his rash act occasions some surprise.
A SERIOUS accident occurred on the
Philadelphia, Wilmington q Baltimore
railway at Havre de Grace Md, on the
21st, by which q large number of persons
were injured, some of them very serious
ly.
A SOLEMN requiem mass was cele br a ed
in the Church of the Holy Innocence in
New York, on the 21st, for the repose of
the souls of 1,5OO, 900 Irish who have died
of starvation during the reign of Queen
Victoria. Rev. John Larkin, pastor
acted as the celebrant
Mrs. JAMES. G. BLAINE is said to be quite
ill at the Metropole Hotel, London.
THE Interstate Commerce Commiss ion
heard further tes timony on the 22d on the
complaint of the Burton Stock-Car Com
pany of discrim nation by various roads
IN Vic - dhO oudEpc GTlttl III NEW L OTk,
on the ed, one of the witnesses pleaded,
with tears in his eyes, to be excused from
answering question. Judge Barrett let
him cry, but made him answer.
A TERRIBLE explosion of chemicals oc-
CURED at Manchester, England, on the
22d, and many persons were killed.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS health is reported
to have improved to it's normal robustness
JAMES STEADMAN was arrested at
Quincy, Ill, on the 22d, charged with kill
ing Perley Sevall on the Goth, near Zanes-
vile, Q.
JOHN O'RoURKs, a bridge builder, of
Chicago, employed on a bridge being
built below Cedar Rapids, Ia, fell the
evening of the 22d, sustaining fatal in
juries.
MRS JAcoBUs, the nurse of President
Cleveland, died a few days ago at Cald-
we'll, N. ]. She was born in 1895, and for
over a year had been perfectly helpless,
being paralyzed and blind.
REPORTS from Rowan County, KY, are
to the effect that the old war has been re-
newed, and that Craig Tolliver and many
others have been killed.
STEPHEN PEERE, shoemaker, residin G
on the Canadian side of the Niagara
river, crossed the river at Suspensi sion
Bridge on the 22d, walking upon a five
eights inch wire cable.
LARRY DONOVAN, the bridge-iumping
crank, who was arrested as he was about
to jump from the Clifton suspens sion brid ge
at Bristol, England, was discharged on
the 22d upon furnishing sureties that he
would make no further effort to jump
from the bridge.
A VIOLENT storm of wind and rain broke
over Wilmington, Del, on the 22d, and
ragged furiously for half an hour, unroof-
ing buildings, leveling chimneys, uproot-
ing and twls tin g off trees and doing many
thousand dollars worth of damage in va
rious ways.
THE American yacht Mayfower defeat
ed the English yacht Gal atea in the Mar
blehead (Mass.) regatta on the 23i.
TIE London Lancet states that the health
of the Crown Prince of Germany is excel
lent.
JACK MARTIN, a brakeman on the Wash
ington, Cedar Rapids G. Northern rail
road, in drunken row at his home in
Cedar Rapids, Ia, on the 22i, stabbed
Dave McElroy, boiler maker in the
shops of that road. McElroy was stabbed
twlce, fatally, in the groin and right lung.
He is unmarried. Martin is in custody.
THE bodies of ten persons, all children
except two, were exhumed at Philadel-
phia on the ed, and portions taken from
each to determine by analysis whe ther or
not their deaths resulted from eating
sweet buns colored with confectioners'
yellow or other adulteratlve, as has been
charged.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY MAYNARD has
granted the application of the Mechanics
Institute of San Francisco to exhibit,
without payment of duties, foreign goods
intended for the coming exposition to be
held by the institute, subject to the condi-
tions usually prescribed in such cases.
FIVE rdo o9 IL troi
at Fort Gratiot, Mich, on the 22d, and
''held up" the passen gers. Several lost
what money they had, and one man lost
$3.50. Three men have been arrested and
are now in Jail at Port Huron, and more
arrests will follow.
The mayor of Cork appears to have got
ten himself into trouble by hosting
black flag on jubilee day.
AN immense syndicate has been formed
to buy up all the material for making
electric light carbons.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is reported to
have told Congressman Townshend on tn e
23d that he would certainly make his
Western trip.
MOSES j. SPEIGHr, boy in the House of
Refuge, Randall's Island, N. Y, killed his
keeper, W. E. Cole, with a base ball bat,
on the 23d, in an endeavor, with some
other boys, to make their escape.
was held at London on the 23i. The cause
was France and Russia's opposition to
England's Turko- Egyptian policy.
FOUR persons were killed and several
others severely injured by a gas explo-
sion in a mine at Nanticoke, Pa, on
the 23d.
A PROTEST has been sent to Rome by
100, 900 New York Catholics against the
of DR.. McGlynn.
rency of the United States, has gone to
and has taken charge in per-
son of the collapsed Fidelity Bank
THERE was one new case of yellow fever |
at Key West, Fla, on the 23d, and two |
deaths occurred.
GENERAL BUTLER appeared before the |
Interstate Commerce Commission on the !
23d on behalf of the Burton Stock-Car
Company.
MILE. CAMPos, the Spanish countess, |
whose alleged abduction from Paris re-
Gently created such sensation, arrived |
at Dover, England, on the 23d, accom- ;
panied by her alleged aDductor, Gar
ooeuf, who turns out to be her lover,
and whom she persists she intends to
marry.
JOHN SUGLAND, on trial at Bra eboro,
Vt, for the murder of Helen A. Burt,
whose body was found in the Connecti-
cut river on the 10th, committed suicide |
oy hangin in his cell on the afternoon of
he 23d.
By the wrecking of train on the |
railway in New South W ales,
IN the 23d, seven persons were killed and /
forty others injured. The accident was
caused by the failure of the brakes to
work while the train was going down an
ncline.
IN accordance with the terms of re- b
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